December PE News

Swimming

The following girls took part in the National Swimming Championships at Millfield School on 11th November when 3 teams competed in a freestyle relay and medley relay. Senior team: Hannah Drewett, Kat Evans, Alex Ba-Tin, Katy Neale. Intermediate team: Nicole Esdaile, Gemma Currie, Louise Davidson, Gabby Pountney. Junior team: Ellie Wolverson, Hannah Croager, Ginnie Baker, Becky Esdaile. The girls faced stiff competition and all performed extremely well. The Senior and Intermediate teams came 5th overall in the south west with the intermediate girls achieving a personal best in both races and qualifying for the National Team Relay Championships in Coventry in February. Well done to all girls involved. (Miss Cassidy)

Cross Country

South Wilts swept the board once again in the Salisbury Schools Cross Country competition achieving first place in the minor, junior, inter and senior team events. In the individual competition we were equally successful - Imogen Wolsey & Amy Greaves picked up the gold medal in the Inter and Senior girls competition; Phoebe Kalik, Sophie Kalik & Katie Newsome received the silver medal in the minor, junior & senior age groups; Becky Esdaile, Lucy Butt, Emily Kalik & Charlotte Williamson received the bronze medal in the minor, inter and senior age groups. Well done to the 40+ girls who have contributed to the success of this event in the 4 races since September.

Well done to the Junior and Inter cross country runners who made it to the Regional round of the National Cup competition at Millfield School. The Juniors placed 8th out of 10 - Sophie Kalik, Georgina Holman, Hannah Richards, Becky Esdaile, Rosie Bishop, Megan Dunlop. The Inters placed 5th out of 11 - Emily Kalik, Lizzie Clifford, Flo Powell, Emma Clarke, Nicole Esdaile, Hannah Croager. A great result considering the appalling conditions on the day. Sophie Kalik, Phoebe Kalik, Georgina Holman, Becky Esdaile (junior team) and Imogen Wolsey, Emily Kalik, Lizzie Clifford, Vicky James, Flo Powell, Emma Clarke, Amy McDermott, Holly Kirkham (inter teams) all took part in the Cross Country Relays at Leweston School on 25th November. The junior team came 1st out of 20 and the Inter ‘A' & ‘B' teams came 2nd & 6th out of 20 respectively. An outstanding result for our first time in this competition!

Netball

Congratulations to the U14 & U16 netball players. Both year groups represented Salisbury & District area in the Wiltshire County Netball Tournament held at Dauntsey's on 15th November. The standard of netball was high and both teams did SWGS proud by coming 6th (U16) and 7th (U14) overall in the tournament. Thanks to all involved for their commitment and excellent effort.

U19 Netball - well done to the senior team who placed 3rd in the County Tournament held at Wootton Bassett in October (Miss Weir)

The Salisbury School Sports PartnershipLeadership AcademyThe Selection of Silver Ambassadors

Congratulations to the following students who were selected to be Silver Young Ambassadors for Sport for the Salisbury School Sports Partnership:Isabel Ryan, Lizzie Clifford, Georgia Hedge, Ellie Ingram, Holly Kirkham, Millie Clifford, Alice Butler, Zoe Cullen and Lizzie Clifford . They will now work in support of the Gold Ambassadors throughout the rest of the year. (Miss Cassidy)

JAS Championships in Bedford

Back in February Alice Elgar, Rosie Sykes, Lucy Pike and Hannah Royle qualified for the NSEA Jumping and Style Championships in Bedford. So in November we set off on the 4 hour journey to Keysoe. Unfortunately Hannah had a knee injury so her place was taken by Frances Elgar, who had only competed at the Intermediate level once before.

Rosie had qualified for the individual class as well, however she was on a new horse so was going for a steady clear. Sadly she had a couple of poles down, but was very pleased overall. Then came the team round. The course was well up to height, with every fence at 95cm and several large spreads. This worried us all slightly, but we all knew that we could jump them if we really rode every fence. Lucy was first in and she had one run out at the water tray, which Murphy hates, and finished on a style mark of 18 plus 4 jumping penalties. Alice was next and she managed to get Red over the spreads with just one pole down, finishing on a style mark of 20 plus 4 jumping faults. Rosie was in next and had a brilliant round on Molly, until the third last fence, which she had down. She also finished on a style mark of 20 plus 4 jumping faults. Finally Frances went in with Pebbles and produced a lovely clear round finishing on a style mark of 14.

The team was 15th out of 30 and all 4 of us were inside the top half of the competitors. Frances did brilliantly and finished 25th out of 120. We were all really pleased with how the day went and look forward hopefully to going again. (Alice Elgar, Lucy Pike, Rosie Sykes all 9E, Frances Elgar 7A)

Equestrian Success

Alicia Sherborne competed in the national Amateur Championship at Aintree.

Alicia qualified through 2 rounds (starting in June) to reach the British Show Jumping Amateur championships at Aintree Equestrian Centre in Liverpool on her horse Ricardo's Treat.

The competition was over 4 days and is on Sky Sports on 20th December 2009.

She rode in the 1.15m class a clear round and was placed 6th. There were 65 people in the class, mostly adults who ride for a living. (Parent)

National Triathlon Championships

Well done to Phoebe Kalik (7E) who took part in the National Triathlon Championships (running, shooting & swimming) in Wolverhampton on November 14th. She placed 12th in the U13 age category against girls who were older than herself, so a fantastic result. (Miss Salen)